They also made contact with the representatives for Eugene Monroe and Jared Veldheer to cover their bases, but a source described the Dolphins as most interested in Albert, and willing to pay big money for Saffold to play guard.

It’s so early in the period that a lot of this should be taken with a grain of salt. But we knew the Dolphins needed to upgrade at left tackle in particular and the line in general entering the offseason.

But after former General Manager Jeff Ireland signed Mike Wallace, Dannell Ellerbe and Phillip Wheeler to big contracts on the first day last year, it’s a little surprising to see them loading up again.

Or perhaps not, since the guy who authorized those signings was fired, and the new guy (Dennis Hickey) has his own identity to establish, for an owner eager to put last year’s ugliness behind them, and willing to put his wallet behind that effort (as he did with Brent Grimes already).

Here go the dolphins, so bad developing their own talent that they have to overpay for guys that were drafted and developed from teams who have much better success in that regard. Eventually, (to be a successful franchise) you have to rely on good drafting/coaching. The phins have a ways to go in that regard. Dysfunction all a bound, coach on borrowed time, (and who cannot pick his own coordinators) new GM, multiple owners! They were close last year(at least to making the playoffs) but still pretty far from the big picture.

Great. Out of all the best possible fits they are focusing on the two that are either pushing 30 (Albert) or have injury history (both). Eugene Monroe and Jon Asomoah are the better fits at LT and RG, respectively. I’d even take Veldheer over Albert, younger and has already played in a zone-blocking scheme.

Albert and Saffold ive been told are already on their way to Miami, add ben tate and jarious byrd were set. Draft a rt,g,lb,s,te,. 2014 AFC east champs!!Dont let the media fool you,the players on the team say there is no disfunction and that the locker room is great. Incognito and Martin situation was blown wayyyy out of the water. Fins are coming folks get used to seeing us on top for many years to come.. Tannehill wl be in the 34 13 ratio this year!!

Big money to Saffold to play OG is risky.
He is a good player, but only played 6 career games as a guard and has not stayed healthy in 3 years.
Looks like the Rams will get the better of the Dolphins yet again.

huh? how is that? by letting Jake Long sign with them? the always injured J Long??? the Rams got the better part of the deal by overpaying Long
then having him sit on IR? Again, as it seems every year? yeah???

You all make me laugh! Especially the Ravens and Vikings nonsense. Let me give you a math and economics lesson. Not one Team (including you own favorite) spends more than any other Team! The Dolphins “splurging” just means they have been mediocre and release these players looking to find new ones in Free Agency and Draft. The Dolphins also do an excellent job at managing the Cap, which is why they have a ton of dough for the second straight year. Simply put, the Super Bowl winning Seahawks spend the same money as the the Dolphins. If you were educated in this type of thing you should feel embarrassed if your Team finished behind the 8-8 Dolphins and has no money to spend. That means your Teams stinks with no options!

Allot of haters here. Don’t be angry because the Phins have cap room to bring in players. And to the moron that don’t know about the NFL the Phins have been to 5 Superbowls and have won 2 of them against the redskins and the Vikings. One being the only team EVER in the NFL to go undefeated. They Seahawks are the regining champs not the ravens. And who the hell is afraid of a little black scavenger bird that’s scared of straw men???

You all make me laugh! Especially the Ravens and Vikings nonsense. Let me give you a math and economics lesson. Not one Team (including you own favorite) spends more than any other Team! The Dolphins “splurging” just means they have been mediocre and release these players looking to find new ones in Free Agency and Draft. The Dolphins also do an excellent job at managing the Cap, which is why they have a ton of dough for the second straight year. Simply put, the Super Bowl winning Seahawks spend the same money as the the Dolphins. If you were educated in this type of thing you should feel embarrassed if your Team finished behind the 8-8 Dolphins and has no money to spend. That means your Teams stinks with no options!

This is one team, year after year, that always thinks they’re better than they actually are. I have to give them credit for trying though. But, their days of glory are long gone…just like Shula. This team picked up a lot of bandwagon fans with Marino and that’s all they got…blown out in his only SB appearance. But, spend the money like last year on FA’s…some teams just never learn and this is one of them.

I don’t get it. are the dolphins just supposed to sit on the money and not try to make their team better? isn’t the point to try to get better? I’m not sure what you guys are saying about the dolphins? if your guys teams had money your teams would be smart, but the dolphins have money to spend and their going to spend it, and that makes them stupid. there is some stupidity going on here, thats for sure. oh and by the way, just as a side note, the ravens SB victory was a sham, the NFL set that up as the Ray “double murderer” Lewis farewell tour. Maybe the worst SB team in history along with the Steelers Jerome Bettis farewell tour SB victory, which was also set up by the NFL, in Jerome’s home town of Detroit no less. the NFL is getting sloppy with their fixing. It will all come crashing down soon.

Miami is digging a cap hole. 125 mil last year for players like Ellerbe and Wheeler who had a c1.5 sacks the whole year combined. They obviously weren’t happy because they went out and signed D’Qwell Jackson to another big contract. Spend more on a tackle and what they spent on Grimes and their cap space the next couple years will be like the Cowboys. Go ahead dig that hole big and wide.

I can’t believe you guys let that troll get to you. He probably isn’t even a Raven fan. I guess Miami posts haven’t had much of this thing. Usually these scumbags act like Steeler or Viking fans. All they care about is getting a rise out of people behind their protective screen names. The Viking guys must not do anything but wait for new posts so they can be first with some totally irrelevant nonsense. The Steeler guys change their screen names every couple of months when they see that no one is replying to them. Ignore them and they’ll switch to some other boards to annoy people.

Just from reading the comments you would think that this is a 2-14 team we’re talking about… The Dolphins do a great job managing their cap which is why they have money to spend for the second year in a row. Would you rather they not fix their NFL-worst offensive line and sit on the money? Also, they won’t be in cap hell as most of the players they signed last year can be cut after this season with no dead money taking up space. While they may not be the Seahawks the Dolphins were only one game from making the playoffs and fixing their line could put them over the top.

Vikings fans u wanna go position for position? After oline FB an OLB and RB wot u got thats better? By the way take out AP and yur oline is not even elite. 7 starters u have tbat r better by my count Allen is leaving so u got Greenway n the rest o yur D looks like our oline. Ravens please a very close game could have gone either way. Dolphins have been using a zone blocking scheme with power man lineman and mediocre RBs. With money and depth in the draft to fix the oline and Miami has the makings of a solid O. Better protection and a push in the run game to help close out wins cough Ravens. And the biggest change comes at OC Sherman doest even scheme for individual teams???

Man there’s a lot of ignorance and haters in this topic. What’s miami supposed to do with their 30 some mil, just set on it? Even if they could league rules only allow a certain amount of unspent cap. The phins have 1 starting O lineman left on the roster, they cant just go into the draft and get 4 new starters. So of coarse they are going to be looking to sign atleast 2 in free agency.

For the ppl spounting off about being in cap hell or whatnot, please. The same thing was said last year and we have the 4th most cap this off season. It’s not by coincidence, it’s by design. This is why Apaunte has so much power in the miami front office. She has cap management down to an art. She knows how to structure contracts to leave miami with cap room every offseason.